Close-Up
aka Nema-ye Nazdik Most recently screened in April 1999
Director: Abbas Kiarostami. Cast: Hossain Sabzian, Abbas Kiarostami, Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi, Hassan Komaili, Davood Mohabbat, Hossain Farazmand, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi, Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni, Hossain Farazmand, Hooshang Shamaei, Mohammad Ali Barrati, Davood Goodarzi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami. Twitter Capsule:
A more moving, living, curious document of penitence and forgiveness is hard to imagine. Somehow compact and bottomless.
VOR:⑤
Ingenuity of conception, depth of compassion, poetically pristine execution are barely matched in world cinema. Metafilm that goes straight for the heart.
